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What you see in the ledger is money moving from address X to Y to Z, or very often it's more complicated like Z paying to A, B and C in one transaction. You do
by bufferoverflow 7y ago
What you see in the ledger is money moving from address X to Y to Z, or very often it's more complicated like Z paying to A, B and C in one transaction.
You don't get any other identifiers. You might get an IP address that broadcasted the transaction, but that's not in the blockchain.
And it's trivial to create a new address. Or a thousand of them.
So besides a few known addresses, you're not going to easily find the owner of address X. Some exchanges might sell you some info, but not openly.
- joshspankit 7y agoYou’re assuming that the bitcoin was obtained anonymously, and that no “identifyable purchases” were made using the same wallet.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoNo, what I'm saying is that if one wants to be anonymous with Bitcoin, it's really easy, and the fact that the blockchain has all the transactions doesn't help to uncover anything.
- joshspankit 7y agoYou’re going to have to walk me through that. Because from where I’m sitting it’s almost trivial if you view it through a graph database lens. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR_LBzur-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCR_LBzur-k (and that was years ago)